Beltoon Kalmati

Beltoon Kalmati (22 June 1977-7 January 2011) was a leader of the Taliban during the Afghanistan War.

Biography
Beltoon Kalmati was born on 22 June 1977 in Kandahar, Afghanistan to a family of Sunni Muslim Pashtuns. Kalmati joined the Taliban militant group during the Afghan Civil War of the 1990s, and he became the leader of a cell in Karkar, fighting against both the Northern Alliance from 1992-2001 and the United States after 2001. Kalmati's cell received support from foreign fighters, and in 2011 they resisted the US Marine Corps when they launched Operation Forge Storm. Kalmati was killed in action outside of the coal mine, but his cell emerged victorious against the American enemies.